In the Mood for Love is a 2000 romance film set in 60s Hong Kong made by auteur Wong Kar-wai. It is a film about love and loss and loneliness, as it follows neighbours Mr Chow and Mrs Chan who slowly realise their feelings for each other while discovering their own spouses are having an affair together. As they get closer, more things seem to get in between them such as passive aggressive neighbours and Mrs Chan’s husband returning. Believing she won’t leave her husband, Mr Chow books an impromptu business trip to Singapore and asks her to come with him; she agrees but arrives at to his hotel room too late. A few years later in 1963 she breaks into his apartment in Singapore and calls him at work, but is unable to speak down the line. Then in 1966 Mrs Chow moves back into her original apartment, renting it from Mrs Suen who is emigrating. Mr Chan returns to visit his old neighbours, but is completely unaware that the woman he’s looking for is next door.
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
In the Mood for Love is a 2000 romance film set in 60s Hong Kong made by auteur Wong Kar-wai. It is a film about love and loss and loneliness, as it follows neighbours Mr Chow and Mrs Chan who slowly realise their feelings for each other while discovering their own spouses are having an affair together. As they get closer, more things seem to get in between them such as passive aggressive neighbours and Mrs Chan’s husband returning. Believing she won’t leave her husband, Mr Chow books an impromptu business trip to Singapore and asks her to come with him; she agrees but arrives at to his hotel room too late. A few years later in 1963 she breaks into his apartment in Singapore and calls him at work, but is unable to speak down the line. Then in 1966 Mrs Chow moves back into her original apartment, renting it from Mrs Suen who is emigrating. Mr Chan returns to visit his old neighbours, but is completely unaware that the woman he’s looking for is next door.